Veritas Access NetBackup Solutions Guide

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Product(s): Access (7.3.1)
Platform: Linux
  1. Veritas Access integration with NetBackup
    1.  
      About Veritas Access
    2.  
      About Veritas Access as a NetBackup client
    3.  
      About Veritas Access as backup storage for NetBackup
    4.  
      Use cases for long-term data retention
  2. System requirements
    1.  
      System requirements for OpenDedup installation
    2.  
      Supported configurations and versions for NetBackup with OpenDedup
    3.  
      Supported configurations and versions for NetBackup with CloudCatalyst
  3. Configuring Veritas Access backup over S3 with OpenDedup and NetBackup
    1.  
      Benefits of using Veritas Access with NetBackup and OpenDedup
    2.  
      Workflow for OpenDedup
    3.  
      Use case 1: Backing up deduplicated data (OpenDedup and NetBackup) using the S3 protocol to Veritas Access
    4.  
      Use case 2: Backing up data (NetBackup) and deduplicating the data (OpenDedup) on Veritas Access
    5.  
      Creating an S3 bucket on Veritas Access for storing deduplicated backup data from NetBackup
    6.  
      Creating a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) for primary backup using NetBackup
    7.  
      Creating an OST disk pool and STU in the NetBackup console
    8.  
      Setting up multiple NetBackup media servers in the same domain
    9.  
      Setting up multiple SDFS volumes on a NetBackup media server
  4. Configuring Veritas Access as a cloud storage server with NetBackup CloudCatalyst
    1.  
      Benefits of using Veritas Access with NetBackup and CloudCatalyst
    2.  
      Creating an S3 bucket on Veritas Access for storing deduplicated backup data from NetBackup
    3.  
      Configuring Veritas Access as a cloud storage server on NetBackup server
    4.  
      Configuring Veritas Access SSL with NetBackup
  5. Configuring backup and restore using NetBackup policies
    1.  
      Storage Lifecycle Policies
    2.  
      Backup and restore
    3.  
      Running a backup policy manually
    4.  
      Restoring backed up files
  6. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Unmounting the SDFS volume before restarting Veritas Access or the NetBackup media server
    2.  
      Log locations for troubleshooting
    3.  
      Additional resources
    4.  
      Generating Veritas Access S3 server keys using the helper script

Use case 2: Backing up data (NetBackup) and deduplicating the data (OpenDedup) on Veritas Access

SDFS is an inline deduplication-based file system.

To download and install the OST

  • On a standard NetBackup master and/or media server, run the following commands to install the OST:
    # wget https://sort.veritas.com/public/patchcentral/Linux/7.3/access/
access-rhel-7.3.1ost.tar.gz 
# tar -xzvf access-rhel-7.3.1ost.tar.gz
# cd rpms/
# tar -zxvf access-ost-7.3.1.tar.gz
# cd dist/
# ./media-install.sh