Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Administrator's Guide
- Overview
- About accessing the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- About the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- About appliance console components
- Monitoring the NetBackup appliance
- About hardware monitoring and alerts
- About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup Appliance
- Managing a NetBackup appliance from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- About storage configuration
- About viewing storage space information using the Show command
- About appliance supported tape devices
- About configuring Host parameters for your appliance
- Manage > Appliance Restore
- Manage > License
- Software release updates for NetBackup Appliances
- About installing an EEB
- About installing NetBackup Administration Console and client software
- Manage > Additional Servers
- Managing NetBackup appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- About OpenStorage plugin installation
- About mounting a remote NFS
- About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
- About NetBackup administrator capabilities
- Creating a NetBackup touch file from the NetBackup Appliance
- Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
- About NetBackup administrator capabilities
- About Auto Image Replication between appliances
- About forwarding logs to an external server
- Understanding the NetBackup appliance settings
- Settings > Notifications
- Settings > Network
- Settings > Network > Network Settings
- Settings > Network > Fibre Transport
- Settings > Network > Host
- Settings > Authentication
- About configuring user authentication
- About authorizing NetBackup appliance users
- Settings > Authentication > LDAP
- Settings > Authentication > Active Directory
- Settings > Authentication > Kerberos-NIS
- Settings > Authentication > User Management
- Troubleshooting
- About disaster recovery
- Deduplication pool catalog backup and recovery
Installing NetBackup client software through CIFS and NFS shares
After all appliance configuration has been completed, you can use the following procedures to install NetBackup client software on the Windows and UNIX clients that are used with your NetBackup Appliance. These procedures describe how to install the client software through a CIFS or an NFS share.
Before the installation, make sure that you have downloaded the NetBackup client software package to the appliance and verified that it exists in the following NFS share:<appliance-name>:/inst/client
Note:
If you have existing NetBackup clients and add-ons that you want to use with the appliance master server, they must be version 6.0 or later. For these clients, you only need to add the appliance master server name to the client.
To install NetBackup client software on a Windows client through a CIFS share
- On the appliance where the client software resides, log on to the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu with your administrator credentials.
- Open the CIFS share using the following command:
Main > Settings > Share ClientInstall Open
- On the Windows client computer where you want to install the NetBackup client software, log on as the administrator.
- Open a map or a directory to the following CIFS shared folder on the appliance:
\\<appliance_name>\install
- Click on the Windows executable, quickinstall.exe.
This action installs the NetBackup client software and adds the appliance master server name on the client.
- On the appliance, close the shared directory using the following command:
Main > Settings > Share ClientInstall Close
To install NetBackup client software on a UNIX client through an NFS share
- On the appliance where the client software resides, log on to the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu with your administrator credentials.
- Open the NFS share using the following command:
Main > Settings > Share ClientInstall Open
- On the UNIX client computer where you want to install the NetBackup client software, log on as root.
- Mount the following NFS share:
<appliance_name>:/inst/client
- Browse the files within the NFS share directory. The following files or directories appear:
.packages
clientconfig
quickinstall.exe
PC_Clnt
docs
unix-client-install
- Run the unix-client-install script.
This action installs the NetBackup client software.
- Add the appliance master server name to the
bp.conf
file on the client as follows:On the client, navigate to the following location:
cd /usr/openv/netbackup
Enter ls to see the contents of the directory.
Open the
bp.conf
file in a text editor.Enter the fully qualified host name of the appliance master server.
Save your changes and close the file.
- On the appliance, close the shared directory using the following command:
Main > Settings > Share ClientInstall Close
See Downloading NetBackup client packages to a client from a NetBackup Appliance.