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
- ECA_CERT_PATH for NetBackup servers and clients
- PREFERRED_NETWORK option 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
- Enabling support for NAT clients in NetBackup
- 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 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. Deployment Management
- Deployment Management
- Adding or changing schedules in a deployment policy
- Deployment Management
- Section VII. 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 VIII. 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 IX. 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
Deployment policy management
Use the procedures that are shown to create, modify, and delete your deployment policies.
Creating a deployment policy
Note:
You must add packages to the VxUpdate repository before you can create a working deployment policy. You can create deployment policies without packages in the repository, but those policies fail to run successfully. More information about the management of the VxUpdate repository is available.
- In the NetBackup Administration Console, in the left pane, select Deployment Management > Deployment Policies.
- From the Actions menu, select New Deployment Policy.
- Enter a unique name for the new policy in the Add a New Deployment Policy dialog box.
- Click OK.
- Specify the information that is shown on the Attributes tab in the Change Deployment Policy window:
Package: Select the package that you want deployed from the drop-down menu.
Note:
Specifying a package that supports external certificate authority certificates presents you with an additional tab titled Security. That tab is covered later in this procedure.
Media server: Specify the media server from drop-down. The media server that is specified is used to connect and transfer files to the NetBackup hosts that are included in the policy. The media server also caches the files from the NetBackup repository. The media server must be version NetBackup 8.1.2 or later. Since the repository resides on the master server, the master server is the default value for the media server field.
When you upgrade media servers, the Media server drop-down is automatically set to the master server and cannot be changed.
(Conditional): Select the Limit simultaneous jobs option and specify a value for jobs to limit the total number of concurrent jobs that can run at a time. The minimum value is 1 and the maximum value is 999.
If the check box is selected, the default value is 3. If you do not select the check box, no limit is enforced for the simultaneous upgrade jobs.
You can set unlimited simultaneous upgrade jobs through command line interface by setting the value as 0.
Select hosts: Select hosts from the Available hosts list and select Add to add hosts to the deployment policy. The list is generated from hosts in the host database and backup policies. Once you select Add, the hosts are shown under Selected hosts.
Deployment policies can contain either media servers or clients but not both. When you select the package you want installed, the list of available hosts is filtered to media servers or clients.
Note:
To upgrade a 7.7.x or 8.0 media server, the media server must be in a backup policy. The policy does not need to be active and you do not need to run the policy. Once the media server is upgraded to NetBackup 8.2, you can remove the policy. The policy only needs to have the media server in the client list. You do not need to specify a file list, schedule, or any other policy attributes.
If the media server is not in a policy, the operating system for the media server is listed as Unknown. A tool tip suggests this issue is a missing package. Package for the selected host's operating system is missing. Add the required missing packages to the repository using the nbrepo command line. While it may be true the package is not in the repository, you should also add the media server to a backup policy. If the tool tip persists after the media server is added to a policy, you probably need to add the required package.
- Select the Schedules tab in the Change Deployment Policy window.
You can see a summary of all schedules within that policy.
- Select New.
- Specify the information that is shown in the Add Deployment Schedule window.
Name: Enter a name for the new schedule.
Type: Specify the type of schedule you want created.
Schedule types:
Precheck
Performs the various precheck operations, including confirming there is sufficient space on the client for the update. The precheck schedule type does not exist for EEB packages.
Stage
Moves the update package to the client, but does not install it. Also performs the precheck operation.
Install
Installs the specified package. Also performs the precheck and the stage package operations. If you already performed the stage package operation, the install schedule does not move the package again.
Note:
Please be aware that adding multiple different schedule types to the same deployment schedule window has unpredictable results. VxUpdate has no defined behavior to determine which schedule type runs first. If a single deployment schedule window has precheck, stage, and install jobs, there is no way to specify the order in which they run. The precheck or the stage schedules can fail, but the install completes successfully. If you plan to use precheck, stage, and install schedules, Veritas recommends that you create separate schedules and separate windows for each.
Starts: Specify the date and time you want the policy to start in the text field or with the date and the time spinner. You can also click the calendar icon and specify a date and time in the resulting window. You can select a schedule by clicking and dragging over the three-month calendar that is provided at the bottom of the window.
Ends: Specify the date and time you want the policy to end as you specified the start time.
Duration: Optionally, you can specify a duration in days, hours, minutes, and seconds instead of an end time for the policy. The minimum value is 5 minutes and the maximum is 99 days.
Select Add/OK and the schedule is created. Select OK to save and create your policy.
- A Security tab appears when you select a deployment package that contains support for external certificate authorities.
By default, the Use existing certificates when possible option is selected. This option instructs NetBackup to use the existing NetBackup CA or external CA certificates, if available.
Note:
If you specify this option and certificates are not available, your upgrade fails.
Deselecting the Use existing certificates when possible option lets you specify the location for external certificate authority information for both UNIX and Linux computers and Windows computers.
- Windows clients have Use Windows certificate store selected by default.
You must enter the certificate location as Certificate Store Name\Issuer Distinguished Name\Subject Distinguished Name.
Note:
You can use the $hostname variable for any of the names in the certificate store specification. The $hostname variable evaluates at run time to the name of the local host. This option provides flexibility when you push NetBackup software to a large number of clients.
Alternatively, you can specify a comma-separated list of Windows certificate locations. For example, you can specify: MyCertStore\IssuerName1\SubjectName, MyCertStore\IssuerName2\SubjectName2, MyCertStore4\IssuerName1\SubjectName5
Then select the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) option from the radio buttons shown:
Do not use a CRL. No additional information is required.
Use the CRL defined in the certificate. No additional information is required.
Use the CRL at the following path: You are prompted to provide a path to the CRL.
- For both media servers and clients that select the From certificate file path (for file-based certificates) option, specify the information as shown:
Certificate file: This field requires you to provide the path to the certificate file and the certificate file name.
Trust store location: This field requires you to provide the path to the trust store and the trust store file name.
Private key path: This field requires you to provide the path to the private key file and the private key file name.
Passphrase file: This field requires you to provide the path of the passphrase file and the passphrase file name. This field is optional.
Then specify the correct CRL option for your environment:
Do not use a CRL. No additional information is required.
Use the CRL defined in the certificate. No additional information is required.
Use the CRL at the following path: You are prompted to provide a path to the CRL.
To change a deployment policy
- Right click on the deployment policy and select Change.
- Navigate through the deployment policy tabs and make any necessary changes to the policy.
- Select OK and the policy is updated.
Deleting a deployment policy
- Right click on the deployment policy and select Delete.
- Select OK.
- Confirm the deletion of the policy.