Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
- Section I. About NetBackup
- Section II. Configuring hosts
- Configuring Host Properties
- About the NetBackup Host Properties
- Access Control properties
- Bandwidth properties
- Busy File Settings properties
- Client Attributes properties
- Client Settings properties for UNIX clients
- Client Settings properties for Windows clients
- Data Classification properties
- Default Job Priorities properties
- Encryption properties
- Exchange properties
- Exclude Lists properties
- Fibre Transport properties
- Firewall properties
- General Server properties
- Global Attributes properties
- Logging properties
- Login Banner Configuration properties
- Media properties
- Network Settings properties
- Port Ranges properties
- Preferred Network properties
- Resilient Network properties
- Restore Failover properties
- Retention Periods properties
- Scalable Storage properties
- Servers properties
- SharePoint properties
- SLP Parameters properties
- Throttle Bandwidth properties
- Universal Settings properties
- User Account Settings properties
- Configuration options for NetBackup servers
- THROTTLE_BANDWIDTH option for NetBackup servers
- Configuration options for NetBackup clients
- IGNORE_XATTR option for NetBackup clients
- VXSS_NETWORK option for NetBackup clients
- Configuring server groups
- Configuring host credentials
- Managing media servers
- Configuring Host Properties
- Section III. Configuring storage
- Configuring disk storage
- Configuring robots and tape drives
- About configuring robots and tape drives in NetBackup
- Adding a robot to NetBackup manually
- Managing robots
- Adding a tape drive to NetBackup manually
- Adding a tape drive path
- Correlating tape drives and SCSI addresses on Windows hosts
- Correlating tape drives and device files on UNIX hosts
- Managing tape drives
- Performing device diagnostics
- Configuring tape media
- About NetBackup volume pools
- About WORM media
- About adding volumes
- Configuring media settings
- Media settings options
- Media type (new media setting)
- Media settings options
- About barcodes
- Configuring barcode rules
- Configuring media ID generation rules
- Adding volumes by using the Actions menu
- Configuring media type mappings
- Managing volumes
- About exchanging a volume
- About frozen media
- About injecting and ejecting volumes
- About rescanning and updating barcodes
- About labeling NetBackup volumes
- About moving volumes
- About recycling a volume
- Managing volume pools
- Managing volume groups
- Inventorying robots
- About showing a robot's contents
- About updating the NetBackup volume configuration
- About the vmphyinv physical inventory utility
- Configuring storage units
- About the Storage utility
- Creating a storage unit
- About storage unit settings
- Absolute pathname to directory or absolute pathname to volume setting for storage units
- Maximum concurrent jobs storage unit setting
- Staging backups
- Creating a basic disk staging storage unit
- Configuring storage unit groups
- Section IV. Configuring storage lifecycle policies (SLPs)
- Configuring storage lifecycle policies
- Storage operations
- Index From Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Retention types for SLP operations
- Capacity managed retention type for SLP operations
- Storage lifecycle policy options
- Using a storage lifecycle policy to create multiple copies
- Storage lifecycle policy versions
- Section V. Configuring backups
- Creating backup policies
- Planning for policies
- Policy Attributes tab
- Policy storage (policy attribute)
- Policy volume pool (policy attribute)
- Take checkpoints every __ minutes (policy attribute)
- Backup Network Drives (policy attribute)
- Cross mount points (policy attribute)
- Encryption (policy attribute)
- Collect true image restore information (policy attribute) with and without move detection
- Use Accelerator (policy attribute)
- Enable optimized backup of Windows deduplicated volumes
- Use Replication Director (policy attributes)
- Schedule Attributes tab
- Type of backup (schedule attribute)
- Frequency (schedule attribute)
- Multiple copies (schedule attribute)
- Retention (schedule attribute)
- Media multiplexing (schedule attribute)
- Start Window tab
- Include Dates tab
- How open schedules affect calendar-based and frequency-based schedules
- About the Clients tab
- Backup Selections tab
- Adding backup selections to a policy
- Verifying the Backup Selections list
- Pathname rules for UNIX client backups
- About the directives on the Backup Selections list
- ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive
- Files that are excluded from backups by default
- Disaster Recovery tab
- Active Directory granular backups and recovery
- Synthetic backups
- Using the multiple copy synthetic backups method
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- Parts of the NetBackup catalog
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- Archiving the catalog and restoring from the catalog archive
- Estimating catalog space requirements
- About the NetBackup relational database
- About the NetBackup relational database (NBDB) installation
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on Windows
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on UNIX
- Post-installation tasks
- About backup and recovery procedures
- Managing backup images
- Creating backup policies
- Section VI. Configuring replication
- About NetBackup replication
- About NetBackup Auto Image Replication
- Viewing the replication topology for Auto Image Replication
- About the storage lifecycle policies required for Auto Image Replication
- Removing or replacing replication relationships in an Auto Image Replication configuration
- About NetBackup replication
- Section VII. Monitoring and reporting
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- About the Jobs tab
- About the Daemons tab
- About the Processes tab
- About the Drives tab
- About the jobs database
- About pending requests and actions
- Reporting in NetBackup
- Using the Logging Assistant
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Section VIII. Administering NetBackup
- Management topics
- Accessing a remote server
- Using the NetBackup Remote Administration Console
- Run-time configuration options for the NetBackup Administration Console
- About improving NetBackup performance
- About adjusting time zones in the NetBackup Administration console
- Alternate server restores
- About performing alternate server restores
- Managing client backups and restores
- About client-redirected restores
- Powering down and rebooting NetBackup servers
- About Granular Recovery Technology
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2012, 2012 R2, or 2016
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2008 and 2008 R2
Properties tab of the Storage Operation dialog box
Table: Properties tab of the Storage Operation dialog box describes the options available to configure for the various operations in a storage lifecycle policy. Not all options are available for each operation.
Table: Properties tab of the Storage Operation dialog box
Setting | Description |
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Source | Indicates the storage unit that is the source for the operation. The Source displays for the following operation types: Backup From Snapshot, Replication, Duplication, and Index From Snapshot. |
Operation | The Operation selection determines which options appear in the dialog box. See Operation types in a storage lifecycle policy. See About writing multiple copies using a storage lifecycle policy. |
Retention type |
See Retention types for storage lifecycle policy operations. |
Retention period | Specifies how long NetBackup retains the backup or copy. To set the retention period, select a time period (or level) from the list. When the retention period expires, NetBackup deletes information about the expired backup or copy. After expiration, the files are unavailable for restores. For example, if the retention is set to two weeks, data can be restored from a backup that this schedule performs for two weeks after the backup. |
Target master | Indicates that the copy of the image is to be created in a different master server domain. The target master server manages the storage where the image is to be copied. If Target master is selected for a Replication operation, the operation becomes an operation for Auto Image Replication. |
Local storage | Indicate the storage unit to be used. Select from the following storage units:
Storage units or storage unit groups may appear in more than one storage lifecycle policy. Storage units or storage unit groups may be used in a storage lifecycle policy while also being used as standalone units. |
Storage unit | Indicate the storage unit to be used. Select from the following storage units:
Storage units or storage unit groups may appear in more than one lifecycle. Storage units or storage unit groups may be used in a storage lifecycle while also being used as standalone units. |
Volume pool | option is enabled for tape storage units or virtual tape libraries (VTL). |
Media owner | A Media owner is a group of NetBackup servers that are used for a common purpose. By specifying a , you allow only those media servers to write to the media on which backup images for a policy are written. |
Alternate read server | An Alternate read server specifies the name of the server that is allowed to read a backup image originally written by a different media server. This option is available for Duplication operations only. |
Preserve multiplexing |
option is available for the duplication operations that use tape media or virtual tape libraries (VTL). If the backup to be duplicated is multiplexed and you want the backups to remain multiplexed, check To preserve multiplexing significantly improves performance of duplication jobs because it eliminates the need to request the write-side duplication media for every image. |
Override job priority | The Import operation. The job priority that is indicated is the job priority for any import jobs which use this storage lifecycle policy. option is available for an |
Postpone creation of this copy until the source copy is about to expire | Enable this option to defer the job until the source for the duplication is about to expire. When this option is enabled, the job begins 4 hours before the source is to expire. This default can be changed by changing the Deferred duplication offset time in the SLP Parameters host properties. |
button and options | If a window closes and the jobs for an SLP have not completed, NetBackup attempts to suspend the images that are in progress. When the window reopens, NetBackup resumes those jobs at the point they were when suspended. Not all images can be suspended. The image must be the result of a duplication job where both the source and target of the duplication resides on either an AdvancedDisk or Media Manager storage unit. In addition, the duplication job must meet the following conditions: See Duplication operation in an SLP. Note: Images that result from all other operations (such as Replication operations), are not suspended. Click the button to display the options. The selections apply to the images that NetBackup does not suspend automatically.Select what NetBackup should do if images are not completed by the time the window closes and if the images cannot be suspended:
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