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 NetBackup appliance factory reset
The purpose of an appliance factory reset is to return your appliance to a clean, unconfigured, and factory state. By default, a factory reset discards all storage configuration and backup data. However, before you initiate the factory reset, you can elect to retain the storage configuration, network configuration and backup data if any currently exists. In addition, you can elect to restart the appliance after the reset completes.
If you run a factory reset of the appliance, note the following:
A factory reset disables WAN optimization for all network interface bonds if you retain your network configuration.
After the factory reset completes, you can then enable WAN optimization again for the network interface bonds.
If you do not retain your network configuration, all network interface bonds are lost during the factory reset. After the reset completes, the appliance automatically enables WAN optimization for all network interface ports, including those that comprised the bonds.
Note:
Starting with the NetBackup Appliance 5.0 release, if you perform a factory reset with storage preserved, you can reset the system to the current version only. If you perform a factory reset without storage preserved, you can reset the appliance to a different version. After the reset is completed, the original networking configuration will be lost, so you have to login using the IPMI to reconfigure the appliance.
Note:
Starting with the NetBackup Appliance 5.0 release, during the re-image of a NetBackup 5240/5330/5340 Appliance from the USB drive/CDROM or in case of a factory reset or upgrade, a copy of the ISO being installed is saved in the newly added partition, /dev/mapper/system-iso.
Note:
Image imports after a factory reset, reimage, or during data migration from one primary server to another may span from several hours to multiple days to complete depending on the size and number of the images to be imported.