Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Administrator's Guide
- Overview
- About NetBackup appliances
- About the Primary Server role
- About the media server role
- About accessing the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- About the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- About appliance console components
- About the NetBackup Appliance Web Console login page
- NetBackup appliance home page
- Common tasks in NetBackup appliance
- About the NetBackup appliance documentation
- Monitoring the NetBackup appliance
- About 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 the Manage views
- About storage configuration
- Manage > Storage
- Manage > Storage > Shares
- About Universal shares migration
- Checking partition details
- Resizing a partition
- Resize dialog
- Troubleshooting resize-related issues
- Moving a partition
- Move dialog
- Moving the MSDP partition from a base disk to an expansion disk for optimum performance
- Scanning storage devices from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- Adding the storage space from a newly available disk
- Removing an existing storage disk
- Monitoring the progress of storage manipulation tasks
- Scanning storage devices using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- About Copilot functionality and Share management
- About viewing storage space information using the Show command
- About storage email alerts
- About appliance supported tape devices
- About configuring Host parameters for your appliance
- Manage > Appliance Restore
- Manage > License
- About the Migration Utility
- Software release updates for NetBackup Appliances
- About installing EEBs
- About installing NetBackup Administration Console and client software
- Manage > Additional Servers
- Manage > File Manager
- Manage > High Availability
- Managing NetBackup appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- Expanding the bandwidth on the NetBackup appliance
- About configuring the maximum transmission unit size
- About OpenStorage plugin installation
- About mounting a remote NFS
- About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
- About NetBackup administrator capabilities
- Running NetBackup commands from the NetBackup appliance
- Creating a NetBackup touch file from the NetBackup appliance
- About NetBackup operating system commands
- Best practices for running NetBackup commands from the NetBackup appliance
- Known limitations of running NetBackup commands from the NetBackup appliance
- Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
- Deleting NetBackup administrator user accounts
- Viewing NetBackup administrator user accounts
- About NetBackup administrator capabilities
- About Auto Image Replication between appliances
- About forwarding logs to an external server
- About high availability configuration
- About data erasure
- Understanding the NetBackup appliance settings
- About modifying the appliance settings
- Settings > Notifications
- Settings > Network
- Settings > Date and Time
- Settings > Authentication
- About configuring user authentication
- About authorizing NetBackup appliance users
- Settings > Authentication
- Settings > Authentication > LDAP
- Adding an LDAP server configuration
- Importing an LDAP server configuration
- Setting the SSL certification
- Exporting an LDAP configuration
- Unconfiguring LDAP user authentication
- Enabling the LDAP server configuration
- Disabling the LDAP server configuration
- Deleting LDAP configuration parameters
- Adding LDAP configuration parameters
- Adding an LDAP attribute mapping
- Deleting an LDAP attribute mapping
- Settings > Authentication > Active Directory
- Settings > Authentication > User Management
- Settings > Password Management
- Troubleshooting
- Deduplication pool catalog backup and recovery
- Index
About disaster recovery
Numerous situations can cause fatal conditions and result in the need for disaster recovery. In a disaster recovery situation, it is critical to determine the cause of the disaster and recover as much data from the appliance as possible. Therefore, before you attempt to recover your appliance, contact Technical Support.
Note:
A local drive backup and restore on the appliance is not supported and may leave the system in an inconsistent state. You must protect appliance data by using the backup policies and use the recommended disaster recovery procedures for restore.
The environment that you have configured around your appliance plays an important role on the level of recovery you can achieve. An environment that consists of a standalone primary (primary server) appliance offers the least number of recovery solutions. A failure that is severe enough to bring your appliance down, may mean that it is impossible to recover the data on the system. Veritas support engineers work with you to determine whether they can recover your appliance. If your appliance is not recoverable, then Support may suggest that you rebuild your appliance. If that option is not feasible, then you may need to replace your appliance completely.
However, an appliance that is configured with one or more secondary appliances, or configured with a tape storage unit, there is a much better chance that its data can be recovered.
You can also configure Auto Image Replication between appliances.
See About Auto Image Replication between appliances.
Veritas recommends that you review the following sections from within the NetBackup documentation before you operate the appliance:
NetBackup Administration Guide, Volume I
In Section 5, "Configuring Backups", review the following topics:
- "Creating backup policies"
- "Protecting the NetBackup Catalog"
- "Strategies that ensure successful NetBackup catalog backups"
Review the topics within Section 3, "Configuring Storage".
NetBackup Troubleshooting Guide
Review Chapter 8, "Disaster Recovery" for help with understanding disaster recovery fundamentals.
The Troubleshooting Guide is located at the following location: